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Soy sauce is the best.  I love it.  Any food that comes near my mouth is usually covered in this stuff.  When I go for soy sauce, only Maggi has the taste I enjoy.  Most of the restaurants around town only have Kikkoman, which isn't bad, but next to Maggi, it tastes watered-down and oily. 

Now ponzu...this stuff is like the holy grail of soy sauce.  I don't mind that its by Kikkoman, since I can't find any other varieties around the international grocery stores.  Probably my new favorite cooking / dipping / mixing sauce, hands down.  I was introduced to this stuff by Makoto-san, the human wikipedia of Japan.  You can make cold buckwheat soba noodles, dip it in half ponzu, half water, and slurp it down.  The taste lights up your senses quite pleasantly.

My dad, who doesn't like eating anything that's foreign to him, actually liked the taste.  You can't ask for a better recommendation than that.

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This commercial from McDonalds, someone might even think about the girl at the left: “WTF do she have boxing shoes on?” I think the girl on the left (with the weird boxing shoes on) is ... kawaii!! The girl on the right (wearing red sneakers) ... is so ... kawaii too (note that I wear converse shoes)!

This chicken dance is so kawaii (I still go to McDonalds, but not very often, I prefer Subway)!

Oh yeah, here's the profile picture of myself:

Hello Kitty opening + Story Book Adventure.

I do not own Hello Kitty. Hello Kitty is owned by Sanrio (In fact, Sanrio's characters are copyrighted -- Sanrio does not give any permission to use their stuff from their site (taken from their FAQ), because they don't want to get sued).

   

    My friends have been telling me I shouldn't feel this way. But I do. And I can't help it. I like this guy A LOT, but I feel like I have to get good grades in order for him to like me back. I know this is wrong. I should be able to feel accepted by him no matter what if I truly liked this guy. So this whole thing - this whole GPA complaining I did two entries ago isn't just about the medical school. Trust me, if it was just that simple, I wouldn't have said anything at all. It's just the combination of all these things is what's really ticking me off. To top it off, my parents are pissed at me about all sorts of things, I lost my ID card the other day, my cellphone has to be fixed, my seasonal depression is getting to me - it's always here when summer comes, and I'm in a financial crisis right now. Also, because I'm in a financial crisis, I can't hang out with friends as much anymore so one of them think I don't care. That I have become a cold person. It's just all these problems plus many more that I have to worry about. So I apologize if my last rant entry sounded really childish. I'm just really stressed out right now.


I need a time out.
I need to chill.
I need help.
 

Thankfully, things will get better in time. I'll just have to be patient about this.


    Ever watch the movie, '21'? It was very good, and I suggest everyone to give it a watch. There was a scene in the beginning where the main character, Bell Campbell, is going for an interview at Harvard Medical School. Campbell brings up how he really needs the Robinson Scholarship - a full ride at Harvard Med - because of his low income at home. Then the interviewer responds and says, "The person who's going to get the Robinson Scholarship is someone who can dazzle me, someone who can jump out of the papers. There are currently 75 other people who applied for this scholarship and only one person out of 75 will get this scholarship. All of them have the same excellent resume as you do. Last year, the winner of the Robinson Scholarship was a Pakistani with one leg." All of a sudden some silence ensues as Campbell musters up some courage and says, "Well...I have one..leg." And then the scene cuts to him sitting in an MIT classroom. I thought that was a hilarious scene but at the same time that makes me think, "Wow, is that what it really takes?" I never planned to go to Harvard Med. Ever. I mean, even if I did get accepted, it costs $300,000 - an amount that I can't even imagine paying. But it's still scary if you think about it. I mean, everyone wants to have a excellent education - but most people can't have it because of money.

    And there was this other scene where Campbell's statistics professor was commenting on how he was an excellent student, that he is able to throw all his emotions away and be able to critically and logically think clearly. It is for this reason that he is able to do so good in school - and particularly in math. I wonder to myself, maybe I'm too emotional? I let myself down too easily and sometimes I over think things too much. I worry too much even though the big picture might not even seem that bad. And with this, I wonder, how can I help myself in becoming a more defined and logical person? How do I stop myself from thinking so negatively? I think I need to answer these questions and get some insight.